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Kate Allen has headed Amnesty
International in the United Kingdom since
2000. AIUK has a quarter of a million
supporters and offices in London,
Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.

She established the Human Rights Action
Centre in Shoreditch and was previously
Deputy Chief Executive of the Refugee
Council where, among other responsibilities,
she organised British emergency evacuation
programmes from Bosnia and Kosovo. She
also chaired the Asylum Rights Campaign, a
coalition of 100 refugee agencies, lawyers
and community organisations, during the
passage of major new asylum and
immigration legislation.